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INJURIES IN WAR (COMPENSATION) ACT 1914 - SECT 1

1.(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council frame a scheme as to the pension and
grants, and other allowances in the nature thereof, to be paid to persons
[(not being officers or men of any of His Majesty's forces)], in respect of
injuries suffered by them whilst employed afloat by or under the [Secretary of
State for Defence] in connexion with warlike operations in which His Majesty
is engaged, and in the case of their death to their widows and other
dependants.

(2) The Order shall specify the persons to whom the Order applies and the
conditions under which it becomes applicable, and may include persons not in
the direct employment of the [Secretary of State for Defence], and persons
employed on commissioned ships, notwithstanding that by reason of such
employment they are subject to the Naval Discipline Act.

(3) A person to whom any such Order in Council applies shall not, nor in the
case of his death shall his widow or other dependants or his personal
representatives, in respect of any injury suffered by him whilst the Order in
Council so applies to him, be entitled to any pensions or other benefits under
any other Order in Council or any warrant or regulations relating to officers
and men in the [naval, military or air force] service of the Crown, or to any
compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, or to any
compensation or damages at common law or under the Employers' Liability Act,
1880, or any other statute, or to any gratuity or any superannuation or other
allowance under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1909, or to any pension or
allowance under the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1898, except so far as
the Order in Council otherwise provides.

(4) All pensions, grants, and other allowances under this Act shall be paid
out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(5) An Order in Council under this Act may provide that the Order shall have
effect as from the third day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen, and any
such Order in Council may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order.

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